"If Pac-12 teams stop scheduling the Cougars, then it’s time to panic.
With games against Utah, Cal, USC, Arizona, Washington State, Arizona State and
Stanford all on future schedules, the Cougars don’t have anything to worry
about there."

Sorry to burst your WAC bubble, but 2-3 games a
year against power conference teams will NEVER get a team into the playoffs.

ONLY a power conference schedule with 8-9 games against power conference
teams will get a team into the playoffs.

byu's best bet of
getting to the playoffs is setting up their own playoffs with the other
mid-majors.

Because power conferences are becoming the new division
I and mid-majors are essentially becoming division II.

Sure, recognition as a Power school would have been great but this really does
little to change BYU's future. BYU will continue to schedule tough
opponents from a range of conferences and will continue to thrive. Now, if ESPN
decides to not continue an arrangement with BYU we should start worrying.

The truth is that unless you are in a B5 conference, the cards will be stacked
against you. Even if BYU were in a B5 conference, there is no way that they
would win enough games to make themselves relevant.

Just keep doing
what Mr. Holmoe has stated numerous times - "schedule for a bowl game."
In other words, find the worst teams imaginable to schedule to make sure you get
to 6 wins. Then go to a meaningless bowl game.

Well done - this article is spin at its very finest. The author should write
press releases for the Iraqi Army because this is the sports equivalent of
"American blood is flowing down the streets of New York" while there are
U.S. tanks visible in the background.

The SEC also said no to BYU
(conveniently omitted from the article). With 2 of the 5 already saying no, it
pretty much guarantees the rest will say no as well, including the PAC12 which
BYU needs in order to survive (irony at its finest).

There is a de
facto division-within-a-division emerging in college football and BYU is very
much on the wrong side of the fence.

If BYU wants to be considered an elite team, they cannot lose to teams like
Virginia. Winning strengthens the brand. BYU already has a lot of the
intangibles, international fan base, ESPN contract etc.. They just need to win
those big games.

We have to win. Right now we deserve the way we are being treated. If we were
performing like an elite team, the press would go to town on these conferences
for excluding us. No one will go to bat for us because there isn't a good
argument.

Beat a few good teams every year and whip the rest and
the media will start screaming about the injustice of our exclusion.

For now, we've earned ignominy. Let's uplevel our performance in
recruiting, coaching, and on the field.

If the ACC and SEC refuse to schedule BYU, but must play the Big 5, they will be
filling slots on those other conference schedules that BYU would ordinarily have
a shot at. It also reveals an inherent bias against BYU. BYU IS on the outside
looking in. Unless the landscape changes (perfect season and/or the B12 comes
calling), BYU football is going to go into a decline. The ESPN contract will not
last forever.

Bronco, your team has to win. Or BYU football (and by
extension BYU athletics) will go in the direction of BYU-Idaho and BYU-Hawaii.

If the cougars would have taken care of business against ACC doormat Virginia
last year, the vote may have been different. But I would hate to be Virginia in
Provo this fall. They will feel the Coogs wrath: 55-7.

BYU has just been relegated to the kiddie table. If one more conference of the
P5 refuses to recognize BYU as a P5 equal the others will be forced to do the
same--and when that happens BYU football will be finished. Independence has
failed miserably ESPN contract aside the decline is already started and will
just snowball from here.

BYU fans can take comfort in the certainty that if the "power"
conferences really do succeed in self-segregating into some kind of
"Super" football Division I, thereby relegating everyone else into a de
facto Division II, Congress ~will~ intervene. What happens at that point is
anyone's guess, but the elitists will have asked for it.